Ticona is an international manufacturer of engineering polymers and a Celanese business. The company's head office is located at the Ticona/Celanese-Plant in Florence, Kentucky, USA, since 2005. The Kelsterbach plant was founded in 1961 as a joint-venture between Celanese, an American corporation, and Hoechst AG of Frankfurt. Following the 1999 merger of Hoechst AG with the French pharmaceutical company Rhône-Poulenc , Ticona GmbH was attached to Celanese AG as a separate company. The location of the Kelsterbach plant, with its approximately 1,100 employees, is close to the... Rhein-Main-Airport, which has given rise to regular disputes with Fraport AG which runs the airport. The conflicts are about the safety of the plant and its proximity to future airport expansion. Therefore the relocation of the production facility in Kelsterbach to the Höchst industrial park was completed in June 2011, at a total cost of approximately €1.0 billion. Since its creation in 1961, Ticona's main business is the production of Hostaform, a brand of POM for high performance applications.
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